Kirkland, Wash.-based Life Care Center experienced one of the earliest and deadliest outbreaks of COVID-19, and a Seattle Times investigation found that the disease may have started circulating at the facility far earlier than the outbreak was first reported in late February.

More than 20 current and former employees at the Kansas City (Mo.) Veterans Affairs Medical Center claim they've faced years of racial discrimination while working at the facility, FOX4 News reported earlier this month.

Renton, Wash.-based Providence St. Joseph Health is giving $500,000 to food banks and other nonprofit community organizations to help support COVID-19 response efforts.

Here are 10 clinical findings on the new coronavirus, as reported by Becker's Hospital Review in the last month.

Populationwide social distancing, combined with isolating confirmed COVID-19 cases at home and shutting down schools and universities for at least five months, could have the biggest effect on curbing the pandemic in the U.S. and U.K., a new study claims.

President Donald Trump's administration has partnered with the nonprofit Ad Council, NBCUniversal, ViacomCBS, iHeartMedia and ABC/Walt Disney Television to share information about the coronavirus via televised and digital campaigns.

President Donald Trump is pushing more action on the COVID-19 pandemic to the state level.  Below are key updates from March 16-19 from the states hardest hit by the coronavirus:

In the COVID-19 pandemic, 10,755 American cases have been reported, along with 154 deaths, as of 12 p.m. CDT, March 19.

Americans over age 65 are most at risk for severe illness and death from COVID-19, but the illness can also have detrimental effects on millennials, according to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published March 18.

The Spanish flu, swine flu and Ebola outbreaks all drastically altered the U.S. healthcare system.

There have been 115 U.S. deaths linked to COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as of March 18 at noon CDT. A CNN data analysis of these deaths offers key insights into the disease.

Fourteen nurses share advice for de-stressing after a difficult day.

Hospitals in the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area will conduct joint operations in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said in a media briefing this week, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting.

Some COVID-19 patients and their family members are ignoring quarantine orders, complicating disease containment efforts for hospitals and public health officials.

Fewer Americans are calling the new coronavirus a "real threat" than at the beginning of February, and more are calling the threat overblown, according to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll.

The new coronavirus can remain infectious in the air for up to three hours and last on some surfaces for more than a day, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

President Donald Trump is pushing more action on the COVID-19 pandemic to the state level. Below are some key updates from March 16-18 from the states hardest hit by the coronavirus:

Nurses, nursing assistants and personal care aides are among the largest groups of healthcare workers most at risk of contracting COVID-19, according to an interactive chart from The New York Times.

Nationally, 7,324 American cases of COVID-19 have been reported, along with 115 deaths. Worldwide, 207,518 cases and 8,248 deaths have been reported, as of 12 p.m. CDT, March 18. Globally, 82,104 people have recovered from the illness.

Though the increase in containment measures, such as social distancing, around the world is a positive sign, it is not enough to "extinguish the [coronavirus] pandemic," and countries must focus on testing, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, PhD, said in a media briefing March 16.